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Melissa Mark-Viverito
Award-Winning Food Trucks Fill East Harlem for Five Sundays
NEW YORK— Seven months after a devastating explosion leveled two buildings in East Harlem, an open market-square a block away from the gas leak was filled with music, food, and a sense of hope and change.
East Harlem Icon La Marqueta Revived
It wasn’t an easy Thursday opening speech for City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito. While introducing, recognizing, and thanking all the parties involved in reviving a Harlem landmark La Marqueta, she was muted multiple times, as Metro-North train units roared over her head.
New York City Council’s Human Rights Record Reviewed
The fifth annual “Human Rights Report Card” report, a comprehensive look at council members’ legislative records relating to human rights issues such as housing, worker’s rights, health, and criminal justice, was just released.
